John 15:27

Coming Testimony And Rejection

²⁶ But, when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father--the Spirit of Truth, who comes from the Father--he will bear testimony to me; ²⁷  Yes, and you also are to bear testimony, because you have been with me from the first.

Bear Witness

From the Beginning

John

Luke 24:48

You yourselves are to be witnesses to all this.

John 21:24

It is this disciple who states these things, and who recorded them; and we know that his statement is true.

1 John 1:1-2

It is of what has been in existence from the Beginning, of what we have heard, of what we have seen with our eyes, of what we watched reverently and touched with our hands--it is about the Word who is the Life that we are now writing.

Luke 1:2-3

Just as they were reported to us by those who from the beginning were eye-witnesses, and afterwards became bearers of the Message.

Acts 1:21-22

Therefore, from among the men who have been with us all the time that Jesus, our Master, went in and out among us--

Acts 4:20

Judge for yourselves, for we cannot help speaking of what we have seen and heard."

1 John 4:14

Moreover, our eyes have seen--and we are testifying to the fact--that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

Mark 1:1

The beginning of the Good News about Jesus Christ.

John 19:35

This is the statement of one who actually saw it--and his statement may be relied upon, and he knows that he is speaking the truth--and it is given in order that you also may be convinced.

Acts 1:8

But you shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit shall have descended upon you, and shall be witnesses for me not only in Jerusalem, but throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."

Acts 3:15

The very Guide to Life you put to death! But God raised him from the dead--and of that we are ourselves witnesses.

Acts 4:33

The Apostles continued with great power to bear their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and God's blessing rested upon them all abundantly.

Acts 10:39-42

We are ourselves, too, witnesses to all that he did in Judea and in Jerusalem; yet they put him to death by hanging him on a cross!

Acts 13:31

And he appeared for many days to those who had gone up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, and who are now witnesses for him to the people.

Acts 18:5

But, when Silas and Timothy had come down from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself entirely to delivering the Message, earnestly maintaining before the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

Acts 23:11

That night the Lord came and stood by Paul, and said: "Courage! You have borne witness for me in Jerusalem and you must bear witness in Rome also."

1 Peter 5:1

As for the older men among you, who bear office in the Church, I, their fellow-Officer, and a witness to the sufferings of the Christ, who shall also share in the glory that is to be revealed--

1 Peter 5:12

I have been writing to you briefly by the hand of Silas, our true-hearted Brother (for so I regard him), to urge upon you, and to bear my testimony, that in what I have written is to be found the true love of God. On that take your stand.

2 Peter 1:16-18

For we were not following cleverly devised stories when we told you of the Coming in power of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been eye-witnesses of his majesty.

Revelation 1:2

who testified to the Message of God and to the testimony to Jesus Christ, omitting nothing of what he had seen.

Revelation 1:9

I, John, who am your Brother, and who share with you in the suffering and kingship and endurance of Jesus, found myself on the island called Patmos, for the sake of the Message of God and the testimony to Jesus.